New Blog to Follow

I stumbled across a new blog that I love, it's called Run, Eat, Repeat. Monica, the blogger, is hilarious and gives great advice. I'm going back now and reading her earliest blogs, which gives me inspiration for mine. :) It won't start out at the same caliber as others who have been blogging for years, and that's okay.

Today I'm off to start my two weeks of teaching summer school. I like that I get a head start with some of my kids, and it gets me in to my room to start getting ready early. :). I still have to finish the other school work that I've been working on, and it needs to be done by Wednesday - thank goodness, 'cuz I'm sick of thinking about it!!

The scale has been stuck for about a week now... I need to get back to tracking all of my food. I'm going to attempt to track it and photograph it so I'm not as quick to scarf things down in a hurry without considering if I really want it or not. I want to lose about 13 more pounds and it's taking forever!

Breakfast today: coffee, 1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1 tbsp sugar, Activia Greek strawberry yogurt, 1 piece oatnut Brownberry bread, 1 tbsp No Sugar Added boysenberry preserves. = 7 PP

Snack: 2 bananas = 0 PP

Lunch: Harvest Chicken Salad wrap on Flatout Multigrain flatbread, Stacy's Naked pita chips, grapes = 11 PP

Summer school went well this morning! Everything worked well and I'm all set to go for tomorrow! :) Working on school stuff at home on the deck...

Only a couple more days of working on this before it's gotta be done!

I really would like to look into getting a health, wellness or fitness certification. I've thought this since college, but for a few years I fell out of love of the field, then back into it. I'm not sure how I would use it, other than in my daily life with family and friends, and possibly with my coaching.

Dinner tonight was one of my new favorites - turkey sausage with cheese! Two sausages (can you see the oozing cheese?!?), two corn on the cobb with blue bonnet light margarine, and applesauce. Yumm... 

For exercise today I did my third day of Insanity; so far I love it, but for some reason my activelink doesn't recognize much of the movement, so it doesn't give me much for points...grr. 

Rest Day

I am so sad that summer is coming to an end already... it's the second day of August! I have one week of non-teaching left, which is going to be spent on grad class work, and then two weeks of teaching summer school and then inservices start. Holy crap this summer went by so fast!

Today Burkie and I took a walk in the morning, and then I did laundry and did some straightening up around the house. I spent some of the day doing grad class work, and then went to school to try to get some documents that were saved on the school server - and then got there and the server was down! I am mentoring someone this year, so I have to get that person some general documents for them to use and now will have to wait until Monday.

Today was a rest day for my running program, which always feels weird. I usually spend the day wondering when I'm going to leave for my run. :) I took Burk for another walk later in the afternoon again today, so at I at least got 75% of my Activelink activity points in for the day. It connects to my Weight Watchers program and automatically gives my extra earned points to my weekly points. It kind of works like a fitbit, or a pedometer, only it measures all movement - not just steps.

Tomorrow my parents and sister are coming to visit, and we have plans to go on a boat tour and reservations to go out to eat in a nearby town where none of them have eaten before. I hope they enjoy both things. :)

MIA

Sorry, I've been missing a couple days. :) I got home late two nights ago when I had anticipated writing my blog for that day. But the good news was I found a new (to me elliptical) from Craigslist and brought it home! I had my cousin-in-law lend me the use of his truck, but he ended up driving and helping me load/unload the machine and carry it up to my house. I LOVE the new machine! It's only been used a couple times and is pretty much brand new. It sells for $999 new, and I bought it for $200! Steal of a deal! :) I love it so far.

Yesterday was kind of a boring day, and I basically just worked out on the new machine, took Burk for a walk, ran, and did laundry. I did run some errands in town, but other than that I didn't have much on the agenda.

Today I went to my local farmer's market; however when I got there, it was mostly picked over. I still bought some produce, and had it for dinner tonight. I got sweet corn, potatoes, blueberries, and tomatoes. Tomorrow I'm going to go to another local produce stand in town and get some more fruits and vegetables so I have some good stuff for this weekend. My parents and sister are visiting and we're celebrating my dad's birthday. He loves taking a boat tour of a nearby lake, so we'll do that on Saturday, and probably go out to eat.

My running has gone well this week; it's been a pretty easy mileage week so far. Sunday was Insanity, Monday was a rest day, Tuesday was 3 miles, Wednesday was 4 miles, today was 3 miles, tomorrow is a rest day, and Saturday is the kicker - 9 mile long run. I haven't ran that far since I did my half on the treadmill, and I have to make sure I get it done early in the morning that day since my family is coming.

Burkie and I took a walk somewhat late tonight after dinner. He was so excited to go that it's hard to not take him every day! :) He loves being outside and seeing things around the neighborhood, and I love getting to exercise peacefully and listening to my podcasts on my ipod. Recently I've been listening to a lot of Adam Carolla's and Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcasts (separate ones and ones of them together).